Dead Poets Society - Idioms 1

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Dead Poets Society Part 1
English Idioms Sayings and Slang

• big shoes to fill! - a way of saying that a family member you are being compared to, did an excellent job in sth you are going to do yourself

• looks like a stiff – a person that is not interesting; a dead body

• don't mind him - ignore him

• born with his foot in his mouth! - he's always talking stupid/foolish

• bootlicking - Crude adjective for a person willing to do anything to please another

• Tell him off! - "to tell someone off" is to yell or curse at him

• that’s rich – what you said about a person, could be said about you